Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping enter the hall during a signing ceremony on May 20, 2026, in Beijing, China. (Getty Images)
Supporters of the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) chant slogans and wave flags at a rally celebrating the end of the US military presence in Iraq on September 30, 2026, in Baghdad, Iraq. (Getty Images)
Presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro for the Partido Liberal speaks to the press after the votes are tallied on election day on October 4, 2026, in Brasilia, Brazil. (Getty Images)
Diplomatic envoys of ASEAN countries to China watch an intelligent robot during a visit to the China-ASEAN AI Application Center on July 22, 2026, in Nanning, China. (Getty Images)
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi holds a news conference in New York after she addressed the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly on September 22, 2026, in New York City, US (Getty Images)
Migrants storm a barbed-wire fence as they attempt to cross the land border with Spain's African enclave of Ceuta near Fnideq in northern Morocco on September 15, 2024. (Getty Images)
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn prior to his departure from the White House March 22, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (R) speaks during a press conference with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (L) at the Great Hall of the People on June 14, 2018 in Beijing, China. (Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)
Visitors look at an Artificial Intelligence (AI) robot during the 5th Popular Science Products Expo at Shanghai Exhibition Center on August 27, 2018 in Shanghai, China. (VCG via Getty Images)
Cameras are visible on the exterior of an Nvidia self-driving car inside the Nvidia booth during CES 2019 at the Las Vegas Convention Center on January 8, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Former Senior Fellow and Director for Chinese Strategy
Michael Pillsbury
In the Media
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A woman looks on as she waits to be searched by members of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) after leaving the Islamic State (IS) group's last holdout of Baghouz, in the eastern Syria, March 1, 2019. (DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP/Getty Images)
Flags of NATO member states are seen ahead of the NATO Foreign Ministers meeting at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium on December 04, 2018. (Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)